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• esd at 2005-09-27 00:12
  I may have posted this in the wrong forum but I really need an answer. I have the "Shadow Warrior CD" Build editor and I installed it according to the docs; it works. What doesn't work is the keys (some of them, anyway), particularly the NumPad Enter for 3D Mode and the arrows. NumPad Enter says, after completing a sector, "Highlighted line pointers checked"; that is, the program thinks I pressed ENTER (it's its message). The arrows never work when loading a level and only for a short time after entering 3D Mode (which I managed to enter by remapping 3D Mode to another key thru BSETUP.EXE, even if unrecommended). What is wrong with it?
• Awesoken at 2005-09-27 01:53
  Short answer: Use JonoF's BUILD port! It includes BUILD.EXE for SW.
  
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  Long answer (for posterity):
  
  In my original BUILD.C, I had this at the top of my keyboard handler:
  

  koutp(0x20,0x20);
  
  oldreadch = readch; readch = kinp(0x60);
  
  keytemp = kinp(0x61); koutp(0x61,keytemp|128); koutp(0x61,keytemp&127);

  
  In 1999, after testing Build on NT, I changed it to this:
  

  oldreadch = readch; readch = kinp(0x60);
  
  keytemp = kinp(0x61); koutp(0x61,keytemp|128); koutp(0x61,keytemp&127);
  
  koutp(0x20,0x20);

  
  I was calling koutp(0x20,0x20) at a non-standard place. DOS/Win9X/WINME work fine with it at top. WinNT/Win2K/WinXP do not. Probably, the emulation is calling my old keyboard handler recursively when it gets to the koutp(0x20,0x20), causing it to receive 2-byte scancodes in reverse order.